Year on year BHP Billiton Ltd's revenues fell -30.75% from 44.64bn to 30.91bn. This along with an increase in selling, general and administrative costs has contributed to a reduction in net income from a gain of 1.91bn to a loss of 6.39bn.

In 2016, BHP Billiton Ltd increased its cash reserves by 55.39%, or 3.66bn. The company earned 10.63bn from its operations for a Cash Flow Margin of 34.37%. In addition the company generated 284.00m cash from financing while 7.25bn was spent on investing.

BHP Billiton Ltd has a Debt to Total Capital ratio of 37.75%, a lower figure than the previous year's 43.18%.

Total Assets

Current ratio

1.44

Quick ratio

1.16

Total Debt

Total debt/total equity

0.6709

Total debt/total capital

0.3775

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Year on year, both dividends per share and earnings per share excluding extraordinary items growth dropped -75.81% and -286.97%, respectively. Additionally, five year annualized dividend per share growth is in-line with the industry average relative to its peers.

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